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In reply to the discussion: Well now I know personally why our insurance is so high [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)30. Yep, we're expensive guinea-pigs, but TPTB on this'll be good-god damned before RU486 or
something like it makes it to market in the USA, "There might be bad side-effects" should be translated to, "Pharma doesn't like the cost to benefit ratio that eliminates all of those pregnancies and hospital stays, the consequent pressure on health care costs and, MOST importantly, the consequences of that consequent, their POWER and CONTROL over American "health" "care"."
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Eat oatmeal every day. Lotsa fiber, go easy on meat and butter and stuff like that. nt
MADem
Nov 2012
#29
Don't wait--let your fingers do the walking. Find out if you can get it at Walmart or Target, too.
MADem
Nov 2012
#42
yeah, the price hasn't really come down at all since imitrex's monopoly expired.
unblock
Nov 2012
#32
unfortunately imitrex affect my mood in a way that zomig doesn't, and i don't think there's
unblock
Nov 2012
#61
yes, and I find Doctors to be more liberal and democratic in their thinking vs. Pharmacists
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#38
Competition is what should regulate prices - Why can't we buy from Canada?
socialindependocrat
Nov 2012
#24
I posted this in another thread yesterday - my experience buying drugs with no insurance -
djean111
Nov 2012
#28
Thank you, but his PTSD is from two pretty frightening things that happened to him on jobs.
djean111
Nov 2012
#49
Good grief--you'd think his employer (or former employer) could be brought to the bar and
MADem
Nov 2012
#55
Yep, we're expensive guinea-pigs, but TPTB on this'll be good-god damned before RU486 or
patrice
Nov 2012
#30
Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'm thinking of other "emergency contraception"/monring-after drugs. nt
patrice
Nov 2012
#50
The reason is the patent on the active ingredient in Crestor expired in February 2012 in Canada...
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#33
Health, education, and justice, three fields in which profit has no place.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#77